"Uncle Shi, now that I am idle, my niece will walk around the city with Sister Xin'er, see the characters and customs of this city, and when Uncle Shi has time, I will ask you for advice!" Seeing that her brother didn't want to talk more about what he would try, Kong Yue smiled and stepped forward to change the conversation.

"Haha, it's still the Yue'er girl who is likable, you're probably hungry all the way, so follow me to the backroom for dinner." After Tian Lie passed the township examination when he was young, it was easy to participate in the examination and obtain the qualification for the palace examination, but because he was given money, he was repeatedly brushed down, so he later angrily prepared to build a school and changed it to teach the four books and five classics. Although he himself was cold about the imperial examination, he still hoped that Kong Ying's sons and nephews could achieve fame.

"Daddy, we're all the way around the city, guess who I'm seeing?" Tian Xin walked to the back room with his father in his arms.

"Oh, I've been teaching here, how is it possible to know who you're going to meet?"

"Daddy is so boring! When we were playing outside the Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city, I saw a man hurriedly coming out of the Chenghuang Temple and turning into the alley. ”

"How is that possible? Didn't Shijie take turns to go to the quarry in Mayu, when he was leaving, he came to greet me, knowing that the old man had some coughing and wheezing recently, and asked someone to bring some herbs from the mountains a few days ago. I heard that they were all attacked by the Liukou when the Mayu Quarry, was killed by the Liukou, although I did not accept him as a disciple, but Shijie has always been smart and kind, and I am quite fond of the school, yesterday I learned about this and asked the next person to send some silver to his old lady, how can you see him in the city? Tian Lie didn't believe it, "You must be dazzled!" ”

"No, he studied with his father in the school for three years, and we are all very familiar with him, although the man is wearing a felt hat and covers half of his face, but the outline of his eyebrows and eyes and face will not be wrong!" Tian Xin pouted. "If he hadn't gone fast, I'd have stopped him!"

"You, how can you be so sure at the moment, and besides, there were people coming and going at that time, wasn't that person still a few feet away from us? My brother and I just saw a back, sister, you are dazzled! ”

"Hey, maybe, it's just that his mother is only this only child, and I don't know how to live in the future!" Tian Xin sighed.

"Don't worry about the sister of the Tian family, I still have some broken silver here, I am willing to accompany my sister to send it to the woman in the afternoon." Kong Ying took over and said.

"Okay, I'll add some too, sister, let's go together, okay?"

"Just listen to my sister." Kong Yue pursed her lips and smiled. She has delicate eyebrows, two shallow dimples on her cheeks, and when she smiles, she looks more lively and cute.

Ming Shijie did not know that he was found by Tian Xin outside the City God Temple, he did not dare to appear in the streets and alleys during the day after he mixed into the city yesterday afternoon, and secretly found a vacant wing room in the City God Temple for the time being, there are only a few sweeping monks in the City God Temple, but there are more than 30 large and small houses and halls, in addition to some wandering people to borrow this at night, there are also some halls and houses vacant, just Ming Shijie settled here.

After sunset, Ming Shijie took advantage of no one's attention, went back to his home, told his mother that he was safe, told his mother not to leak the news of his return to the city, and then secretly went out, went around the alley, and arrived outside Mingxiong's house, and was thinking about how to contact this clan, and suddenly saw a yacha hurriedly enter the Ming house, and after a few Mingxiong hurried out with the yacha, to see that the direction of his departure should be where the county ya.

Ming Shijie didn't dare to show up easily, and stayed outside Ming's house all the time, and it took more than half an hour to see Mingxiong returning to the house alone.

Ming Shijie waited quietly outside for half an hour, and saw that the courtyard was already quiet inside and outside, and there were no more pedestrians in the alley, so he came out of the hidden place. He didn't dare to knock on the door to enter, but picked a big tree on the side of the road from outside the courtyard wall, took advantage of the night and no one around, first climbed the tree to look inside, saw that no one was moving in the courtyard, got off the tree, chose a wall that was easy to climb, ran a few steps, stepped on the wall with his toes, jumped by force, his body went up, grabbed the wall of the courtyard wall with both hands, and his waist and back took advantage of the strength to turn into it silently. Ming Shijie has come to visit Mingxiong many times, and often comes and goes during the New Year's holidays, so he is quite familiar with the layout of this courtyard.

Ming Shijie did not alarm others, quietly came to the study, saw the candle in the room was shining, lit a small hole in the window paper with his fingers dipped in saliva, looked inward, and saw Mingxiong alone indoors. Seeing that there was no one on the left and right, he knocked on the door a few times.

Mingxiong was sitting in the house thinking, today the county Yin Xie Lin and the county Dalu Huachi beggar suddenly summoned himself and several other hundred households to discuss the matter, and told that a large number of rogues had fled here, and all the drives and laborers of the Mayu Quarry were involved, and the thieves were in a big position, and the people who heard the news said that it was very likely to attack the county seat in the near future, and several people were shocked. The Han army in the city was only a few hundred, and if there were really thousands of thieves attacking the city, it would be difficult to defend it.

But then the beggar has issued several military orders in succession: asking for help, summoning volunteers from outside the city to enter the city to assist in defense, calling the city servants to carry wood and stones, etc., blocking the city gate to strictly prevent spies and other arrangements are in order, as a subordinate, and the identity of the Han army, under the jurisdiction of the beggar, at this time, there is only a hurry to show loyalty, if the beggar is aware of his hesitation or two hearts, according to the beggar's small belly chicken intestines, I am afraid that he will immediately turn his face, and be taken down and locked in prison on the spot.

In recent years, in the Central Plains, on both sides of the Yangtze River, the beacon smoke is everywhere, and the officials and soldiers have surrounded and suppressed the anti-thieves everywhere, because the anti-thieves are so powerful, they have to mobilize more and more Han troops to participate in the suppression of bandits, and even began to encourage the local big gentry to raise troops and call them the righteous army. The strength of the Han army and the righteous army in various places has become stronger and stronger after tempering in the battle, although many anti-thieves have been eliminated, but it has also formed a situation in which the Han army and the righteous army cannot be defeated.

The Mongols loved and hated these Han and rebel armies, and it was precisely because of the addition of a large number of Han armies and rebel armies that they were able to effectively exterminate bandits in many places. However, the Han army is getting bigger and bigger, but it is not the blessing of the Mongols, so the Mongolian high-ranking officials often use it, be cautious, and suppress it. Beggar is no exception, since he came to Linqu to take office, the Han army is often lukewarm, Mingxiong for his future every festival filial piety, very generous, only occasionally get a few times of the beggar smile, now the situation is sinister, can not touch its tiger buttocks.

Mingxiong was thinking about it, and when he heard a knock on the door, he thought that someone had something to tell him, so he didn't think much about it, and said casually: "Come in." ”

The door opened, and a man flashed in, and immediately closed the door, and then came over to salute.

"Shijie has seen the fourth uncle." On the middle of the clan, Mingxiong is the fourth uncle of Ming Shijie.

"How could it be you? Shijie, how did you get here? Lord Yin of the county said today that you were all killed by thieves in the Mayu Stone Field! Mingxiong was stunned for a while, and it took a while before he woke up and asked urgently. Mingxiong had a son, but unfortunately he died early due to illness when he was a teenager, and then the couple never had a child, this Ming Shijie looks and temperament like a child who died early, and he is his own clan, Mingxiong has always been close to him, as if he was his own, and the relationship between the two is also intimate.

"It's a long story, the little nephew was indeed captured in the quarry, and I thought that he would definitely die this time, but the other party asked those droopers and coolies to come out and identify the house slaves and yacha who committed the most heinous crimes, and only executed the unforgivable house slaves and some yacha in public, and the others were only temporarily imprisoned because of their evil deeds, but there was no difficulty for us."

"But why are you here all of a sudden? Does your mother know you're alive? ”

"I'm tired and worried, and I've gone back home to see my mother and tell my mother that my little nephew is all right. It's just that this quarry incident was unexpected by the little nephew. I thought it was a foreign rogue who came here to rob it, but then I saw the big leader of the other party, and after he talked to me, the little nephew finally made up his mind that he would rather not have this official errand, but also join the gang, and follow the adults to fight in the north and south in the future, and lay down a real Han family world. ”

Seeing that Mingxiong was confused, Mingshijie moved a chair at the bottom, and after sitting down, he told Mingxiong about the experience carefully. Especially when it came to Yu Zhilong's strict military discipline, killing those soldiers who trespassed on private houses and shops in public, and then distributing acres of cattle and sheep to various farmers, burning the old land deeds, and even fulfilling his promise to spare the lives of dozens of people of the Liu family who surrendered, Mingxiong listened for a long time.

"You said that Leader Yu is going to attack Linqu County, is this true?"

"Yes, in order to reduce the casualties of the siege, Lord Yu knows that the little nephew is close to the fourth uncle, although the fourth uncle has awarded the thief a hundred households, but he has always despised Menghu for being short-sighted like a mouse, and careless of human life, so I specially ordered me to sneak into the city to contact the fourth uncle, hoping that the fourth uncle will judge the situation, make a decision immediately, and open the city gate at that time, and we should cooperate inside and outside, and take the county seat in one fell swoop."

"You are so bold, you dare to enter the bandits, and you want to bewitch a rebel against the court and sacrifice the city, do you still have loyalty and love for the people in your heart, as well as courtesy, righteousness and shame?" Mingxiong couldn't help but change color when he heard Ming Shijie's words, and got up angrily, although he was angry, but his voice was not very loud.

"The fourth uncle's words are so unreasonable, Menghu steals from China, and regards my Han family people as pigs and dogs, although I have read poetry and books for several years, I also know the Han family's clothes and Chinese etiquette. Now seeing the world full of blood, etiquette and music are broken, not only Menghu lives alone in a high position in the court, greedy and excessive, even those Han thieves who have forgotten their ancestors are also foxes and fake tigers, acting for the tiger. Although the little nephew is not talented, but ashamed to be with him, now the adult has the ambition to clear the universe, where the road is, although tens of millions of people have gone to me. The little nephew deeply felt the strength of his ambition and the depth of his affection. That's when I made up my mind to follow Lord Yu in the future! ”

"The little nephew and Lord Yu have only known each other for a day, but the ambitions of the adults are lofty, and in a few words, such as Huang Zhongda Lu shocked the little nephew like a dream. The fourth uncle teaches his little nephew every day, and he learns to help the world with a useful body. But the Menghu court is not the king of my Han family, he regards us as lowly, can An make me happy? Although the fourth uncle is a hundred households in the Han army and is praised by the world for his martial arts, how could Menghu really rest assured of the Han army, and why did he reuse the fourth uncle? Over the years, the swords and guns of the Han army were not ordered by the Privy Council of the provinces, and they were not allowed to be equipped in peacetime, they were all sealed in the treasury, and even bows and arrows and sharp cavalry were ordered not to be equipped. If it weren't for the chaos today, the Han army would have to fight everywhere and serve the Mongolian army desperately, I'm afraid that the fourth uncle would not have a chance to draw a bow and arrow now! Talking about loyalty to Menghu will make the heroes of the world laugh in vain! Ming Shijie talked eloquently, and he was not afraid of Mingxiong's face and color.